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US spacecraft enters giant asteroid's orbitWashington (AFP) July 17, 2011 The US spacecraft Dawn has entered the orbit of Vesta, one of the largest asteroids in the solar system, the US space agency announced early Sunday. Dawn is expected to come within 10,000 miles (16,000 kilometers) of Vesta to study its surface while traveling 116 million miles (188 million kilometers) from Earth. "It has taken nearly four years to get to this point," said Robert Mase, manager of the $466 million project at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. After a ye ... read more |
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  Shuttle's end opens new era, new legal issues in spaceflight The space shuttle's final mission marks the end of an era, but also opens an unprecedented age of private and commercial spaceflight. This new era will require international collaboration to keep wa ... more | .. |
  Russia launches 2 foreign satellites into orbit Russia launched early on Saturday a Proton-M rocket carrying a Kazakh and a U.S. communications satellites from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan, Russian Space Agency Roscosmos said. "T ... more | .. |
 When minor planets Ceres and Vesta rock the Earth into chaos Astronomy and Astrophysics is publishing a new study of the orbital evolution of minor planets Ceres and Vesta, a few days before the flyby of Vesta by the Dawn spacecraft. A team of astronomers fou ... more | .. |
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 Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle Launches GSAT-12 Satellite India's Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C17) successfully launched GSAT-12 communication satellite from Satish Dhawan Space Centre (SDSC) SHAR, Sriharikota. The launch of PSLV-C17 was the eight ... more | .. |
  "Space taxi" coming The last Atlantis shuttle which docked with the ISS this week is due to return to Earth on July 21st . From then on, astronauts and cargoes will be delivered to the ISS by Russian Soyuz spaceships. ... more | .. |
  Aura Satellite Measures Pollution Butterfly from Fires in Central Africa Fires raging in central Africa are generating a high amount of pollution that is showing up in data from NASA's Aura Satellite, with the ominous shape of a dark red butterfly in the skies over south ... more | .. |
  NASA Begins Testing of Next-Gen J-2X Rocket Engine NASA conducted a combined chill test and 1.9-second ignition test July 14 of the next-generation J-2X rocket engine that could help carry humans beyond low-Earth orbit to deep space. The test ... more |
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SDA expands Tracking Layer satellite awards and related missile defense contracts
Space Systems Command activates System Delta 80 for assured space access
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  Second Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Sends First Signals from Space Boeing has received the first on-orbit signals from the second of 12 Global Positioning System (GPS) IIF satellites it is building for the U.S. Air Force. GPS IIF-2, renamed SVN-63, is functioning n ... more | .. |
  Atlantis crew leaves historic flag aboard ISS Space shuttle Atlantis astronauts brought with them a historic U.S. flag that flew aboard shuttle Columbia on America's first shuttle flight, STS-1 in 1981, the National Aeronautics and Space Admini ... more | .. |
 Strong El Nino could bring increased sea levels, storm surges to US East Coast Coastal communities along the U.S. East Coast may be at risk to higher sea levels accompanied by more destructive storm surges in future El Nino years, according to a new study by NOAA. The study wa ... more | .. |
 Dawn Spacecraft Enters Orbit Around Asteroid Vesta NASA's Dawn spacecraft on Saturday became the first probe ever to enter orbit around an object in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. Dawn will study the asteroid, named Vesta, fo ... more |
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 ILS Proton Successfully Launches the SES-3 Satellite for SES International Launch Services (ILS) has successfully carried the SES-3 satellite into geostationary transfer orbit for SES of Luxembourg, one of the world's largest telecommunications satellite oper ... more | .. |
  NASA in Australia for Mars research NASA says it is using a remote region of Australia's outback as a training ground for planetary scientists preparing to send a new rover to Mars. ... more | .. |
 Obama dials for pizza, gets space station Astronauts aboard the International Space Station got a very long-distance call Friday from US President Barack Obama, who joked that he thought he was dialing out for pizza. ... more | .. |
  New Ways to Measure Magnetism Around the Sun Those who study the sun face an unavoidable hurdle in their research - their observations must be done from afar. Relying on images and data collected from 90 million miles away, however, makes it t ... more |
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Philosopher argues AI consciousness may remain unknowable
Climate driven model explores Neanderthal and modern human overlap in Iberia
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  Mapping Microbialites The Pavilion Lake Research Project (PLRP) is moving its base of operations. For the past several years, PLRP has used DeepWorker submersible vehicles to explore the unusual carbonate structures, kno ... more | .. |
  Lockheed Martin Team Delivers Joint Tactical Radio to the U.S. Government for Integration into First Aircraft Platform Lockheed Martin has delivered the first secure, Joint Tactical Radio to the U.S. Army's AH-64D Apache Avionics Integration Lab. The Airborne, Maritime/Fixed Station Joint Tactical Radio System (AMF ... more | .. |
 Northrop Grumman's On-Demand Intelligence System Used for the First Time Using real-time video imagery distributed from Northrop Grumman's on-demand intelligence system, Marines successfully completed live-fire targeting exercises on the Marine Corps' extensive ranges he ... more | .. |
 Raytheon BBN Technologies Awarded DoD Contract to Develop a Secure, Attributed Military Network System Raytheon BBN Technologies has been awarded $16 million in additional funding by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) under phase two of the Military Networking Protocol (MNP) progra ... more |
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 Comet Hartley 2 Leaves a Bumpy Trail New findings from NEOWISE, the asteroid- and comet-hunting portion of NASA's Wide-field Infrared Survey Explorer mission, show that comet Hartley 2 leaves a pebbly trail as it laps the sun, dotted w ... more | .. |
 Mars Opportunity Rover Nears Endeavour Crater Rim Opportunity is now within 2 kilometers (1.2 miles) of the first landfall on the rim of Endeavour crater, at a place called "Spirit Point." With multi-sol planning for the 4th of July holiday w ... more | .. |
  Evolved Stars Locked in Fatalistic Dance White dwarfs are the burned-out cores of stars like our Sun. Astronomers have discovered a pair of white dwarfs spiraling into one another at breakneck speeds. Today, these white dwarfs are so near ... more | .. |
 Tsunami airglow signature could lead to early detection system Researchers at the University of Illinois have become the first to record an airglow signature in the upper atmosphere produced by a tsunami using a camera system based in Maui, Hawaii. The si ... more |
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The Quantum Age will be Powered by Fusion
Physicists map axion production paths inside deuterium tritium fusion reactors
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 Appropriations Committee Approves the Fiscal Year 2012 Commerce, Justice, Science Appropriations Bill The House Appropriations Committee today approved the fiscal year 2012 Commerce, Justice, Science (CJS) Appropriations bill, which provides annual funding for the Departments of Commerce and Justice ... more | .. |
 Flying the STA: Landing Like the Shuttle A Shuttle Training Aircraft plunges 28,000 feet in a little more than a minute when astronauts use it to practice a space shuttle approach. It's as close as anyone can get to experiencing a shuttle ... more | .. |
 Boeing: 2nd Boeing GPS IIF Satellite Ready for Launch from Cape Canaveral Boeing has announced that the second of 12 GPS IIF satellites it is building for the U.S. Air Force has successfully completed prelaunch testing. GPS IIF-2 is ready for launch on July 15 aboard a Un ... more | .. |
 Galaxy sized twist in time pulls violating particles back into line A University of Warwick physicist has produced a galaxy sized solution which explains one of the outstanding puzzles of particle physics, while leaving the door open to the related conundrum of why ... more |
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  KVH Ships 1,500th TracPhone System for its Global mini-VSAT Broadband Network KVH Industries has announced that 1,500 TracPhone systems for its mini-VSAT BroadbandSM network have been shipped to customers. The milestone comes only three weeks after KVH announced the completio ... more | .. |
 Apple makes first S. Korea payout over tracking US technology giant Apple said Thursday it had made its first compensation payment in South Korea over a feature on its iPhone that can track the location of users. ... more | .. |
  Ten new distant planets detected Astronomers using a French telescope say they've discovered 10 new distant planets, including twin Neptune-sized worlds and a rare Saturn-like planet. ... more | .. |
  Saturn moon color mystery explained U.S. astronomers say they've figured out origins of the mysterious colors of Saturn's moon Iapetus, bright white on one side and coal-black on the other. ... more |
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